The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914 (62 page)

23
MFP, 19 Feb. 1902.

24
Eye Opener
, 24 Oct. 1903.

25
Boston
Globe
, 11 March 1906.

26
Kennedy, Howard,
New Canada and the New Canadians
(London: Horace Marshall, 1907), p. 100.

27
Eye Opener, 2
Dec. 1905.

28
Dempsey,
Best of Alberta History
, p. 46.

29
Ibid., p. 47.

30
Ibid.

31
Cashman,
Edmonton Story
, pp. 204–5.

32
PAC, RG 76/255/194804, pt. 3, 31 July 1903, Langley to Smith.

33
SAB, J.A. Donaghy reminiscences.

34
Toronto
News
, 14 April 1903.

35
Copping, p. 75.

36
PAC, RG 76/255/194804, pt. 3, 15 July 1903, Langley to Smith.

37
Crossley, p. 242.

38
PAC, RG 76/255/194804, pt. 3, 6 July 1903, Snow to Commissioner of Immigration.

39
Scarlet and Gold
, 38th ed., 1956, p. 44.

40
SAB, Rendell MSS., 19 Jan. 1904, Alice Rendell to friends.

41
PAC, RG 76/255/194804, pt. 3, 30 Oct. 1903, Speers to Scott.

42
Ibid.

43
Ibid., 30 Oct. 1903, Speers to Smith.

44
Ibid., 30 Oct. 1903, Speers to Scott.

45
Boston
Evening Transcript
, 21 Nov. 1903.

46
PAC, RG 76/255/194804, pt. 4, 4 April 1904, Speers to Scott.

47
Ibid., 13 June 1904, Speers to Scott.

48
Ibid., 3 July 1905, Speers to Cory.

49
TFL, Mavor Papers, Box 41, 18 Nov. 1905, Speers to Mavor.

50
Ibid., 2 Feb. 1907, Riddington to Mavor.

51
Ibid., 8 Jan. 1906, Jemmett to Mavor, encl.

52
SAB, E.J. Ashton reminiscences.

53
PAC, RG 76/255/194804, pt. 4,
Weekly Telegraph
, Sheffield, 19 March 1904 and other issues.

54
SAB, Rackham diary, introduction.

55
Crossley, pp. 251–53.

56
Sykes,
Home Help
, p. vii.

57
Sykes,
Through Persia
, p. 3.

58
Sykes,
Home Help
, p. viii.

59
Ibid., p. ix.

60
Ibid., pp. 7 and 8.

61
Ibid., p. 20.

62
Ibid.

63
Ibid., p. 29.

64
Fraser, John, p. 111.

65
Sykes,
Home Help
, p. 55.

66
Ibid., p. 97.

67
Ibid., p. 99.

68
Ibid., p. 100.

69
Ibid., p. 124.

70
Ibid., pp. 124–25.

71
Ibid., pp. viii, xi.

72
Shepherd, pp. 2–6
passim
.

73
Ibid., p. 9.

74
Ibid., pp. 15–18.

75
Ibid., p. 18.

76
Ibid., pp. 18–21.

77
Ibid., pp. 24–27.

78
Ibid., pp. 30–34.

79
Ibid., p. 45.

80
Ibid., p. 46.

81
Ibid.

The American Invasion

1
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 132.

2
Bicha,
American Farmer
, p. 80.

3
1901 and 1911 Census.

4
Brandon
Sun
Centenary issue, January 1982.

5
Bicha,
American Farmer
, p. 64.

6
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 62.

7
Bicha,
American Farmer
, pp. 68–69.

8
Troper,
Only Farmers
, pp. 48–49; Hedges,
Building
, p. 140.

9
Bicha,
American Farmer
, p. 72; Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 93.

10
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 81.

11
Sharp, “When our West,” p. 297.

12
Ibid.

13
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 108.

14
Ibid., pp. 109–11.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid., p. 110.

17
WDT, 28 Jan. 1904.

18
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 111.

19
MFP, 23 Oct. 1903.

20
MFP, 13 April 1904.

21
1911 Census.

22
CH, 7 June 1912.

23
WDT, 26 Feb. 1906.

24
Quoted in Regina
Standard
, 10 May 1905.

25
CH, 9 March 1906.

26
CH, 12 March 1906.

27
Ibid.

28
CH, 9 March 1906.

29
CH, 19 March 1906.

30
CH, 12 March 1906.

31
CH, 10 March 1906.

32
Grain Growers’ Guide
, 27 Oct. 1915.

33
Knappen, “Winning Canadian West.”

34
Ibid.

35
Ibid.

36
Ibid.

37
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 87.

38
Laut, “The Last Trek to the Last Frontier,”
Century Magazine
, vol. 78, 1909.

39
WDT, 6 Jan. 1903.

40
Woodsworth,
Strangers
, p. 158.

41
Ibid.

42
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 124.

43
Ibid., p. 130.

44
Sessing, pp. 31–32.

45
Quoted in Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 126.

46
Ibid., pp. 125–26.

47
Troper, “Creek Negroes,” p. 284 and note.

48
Winks, p. 309.

49
Ibid., p. 310.

50
Ibid., p. 303; “Between the Rivers,” (Maidstone, Sask., Jubilee Committee, 1955), p. 19.

51
Winks, p. 306.

52
Ibid.; Liddell,
Farmers
.

53
APL, J.D. Edwards interview.

54
St. Paul Pioneer Press
, 21 and 23 March 1911.

55
Ibid., 22 March 1911.

56
Okemah Ledger
, 23 March 1911;
St. Paul Pioneer Press
, 23 March 1911.

57
Blackburn, p. 24.

58
Okemah Ledger
, 23 March 1911;
St. Paul Pioneer Press
, 23 March 1911.

59
Okemah Ledger
, 23 March 1911.

60
Sessing.

61
Troper,
Only Farmers
, pp. 135–36.

62
Ibid., p. 134.

63
Ibid., p. 136.

64
Ibid., p. 138.

65
Ibid., pp. 138–39.

66
Ibid., p. 164.

67
1901 and 1911 Census.

68
EB, 19 March 1906.

69
Hedges,
Building
, p. 142.

70
WDT, 28 March 1903.

71
Hedges,
Building
, pp. 145–46.

72
A Session’s Disclosures
, p. 15.

73
Hedges,
Building
, p. 146.

74
Bicha,
American Farmer
, p. 112 and note.

75
Curwood, “Effects of American Invasion,” p. 6608.

76
Ibid.

77
Quoted in CH, 1 May 1907.

78
Quoted in Sloan, p. 4.

79
CH, 29 March 1909.

80
MFP, 27 July 1903.

81
Ibid., 2 May 1902.

82
Sloan, p. 4.

83
Talbot, p. 38.

84
CH, 15 May 1906.

85
Bicha,
American Farmer
, pp. 130–31.

86
Quoted in WDT, 9 Jan. 1903.

87
Bellan, p. 95.

88
Quoted in Bicha,
American Farmer
, p. 134.

89
EB, 17 Feb. 1903.

90
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 18 Oct. 1901, Dafoe to Sifton, encl.

91
Ibid.

92
CH, 10 Sept. 1906.

The Passing of the Old Order

1
PAC, MG 26 G, 1 Feb. 1905, Sifton to Laurier.

2
Ibid., 21 Feb. 1905, Laurier to Sifton.

3
WDT, 22 Oct. 1904.

4
Ibid.

5
PAC, MG 26 G, 27 Feb. 1905, Sifton to Laurier.

6
Schull, p. 414.

7
Ibid.

8
Ibid., p. 420.

9
HCD, 24 March 1905.

10
PAC, MG 26 G, 22 Jan. 1905, Sifton to Laurier.